You Know You're a Northerner When...

[Pasha838]

I remember when my brother and I were making a snowman, we found some fir cones, making them buttons, the nose was made of a piece of a large icicle, and on his head we wore a torn officer's cap found somewhere.
Snow complicated life not in winter, but in the spring - because the school was in another village, and it was necessary to go through the ravine. In the winter and summer there was quite a convenient path, but in the spring this ravine (usually completely dry) turned from thawed water into a stormy river, over which even large logs swam away. I had to go around, passing an extra 1.5 kilometers. Strange, but for some reason nobody wanted to build the bridge.

 

[Pasha838]

And avalanches are not here, there are no mountains at all, only hills and ravines. The truth once I managed to get under the avalanche, when there was a strange weather, a lot of snow fell on the roof, but it did not move (usually the snow on my roof does not lie, because I deliberately make the roofs high and steep, it moves itself and I do not need to clean anything). I took the ladder and began to clean it, but it went all at once. In general, I was thrown down along with the ladderI got out and then was all wet. But I did not hurt myself, because I fell into a big snowdrift.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

One thing we used to do when we were little

the snow many times would reach almost to the roof of my dads house, so after it snowed we would take our sleds up to the peak of the house and sled down
it was almost 2 stories, maybe 1 3/4

 

[barn206]

When you can be seen walking at 5 am in a coat, slippers, pajama bottoms rolled up and carrying a pale of water because your rooster is screaming at the top of his lungs “we’re thirsty”!!!

 

[Pasha838]

Last month it was snowing, I took pictures before I took the shovel.
garage:

My house

Back door of my house (i don`t use it often, i go from another door)

The greenhouse for a cucumbers (there live my ducks in the winter)


The greenhouse for the tomatoes. In the winter there live my geese. And on the left side of this greenhouse are the shed for my geese (when it is a frost, i close my geese to this shed). Ducks have a small shed near of the greenhouse too. This door i use only in the summer, so I will not clean snow there, I'm lazy.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I'm lazy.

lol!!
looks cold too!

 

[Pasha838]

Here is a good drainage system here (it was built, it seems, even back in Stalin's time, when reinforced concrete did not save and trenches burrowed as if for a flood), if it were not for this, I probably would need a boat in spring, when all this snow melts and will turn into water. Fortunately, most of my birds are geese and ducks, they are good at swimming.
But really - two or three weeks ago here was so much snow that I did nothing, only walked with a shovel back and forth.
People say if there is a lot of snow that will be a good harvest. We shall see.

 

[drumstick diva]

Looks like you really get a lot of snow Pasha. We've been getting smaller amounts but after a few days then end up making big drifts.

Hope you will have an excellent harvest year, my friend.

 

[Pasha838]

Diva

 

[Amer]

Freezing rains have been closing schools and such.